Destined to Crave by Setta Jay (Descended of Guardians #1) Released: August 30, 2017 Paranormal Novella Self Published Reviewed by Mandi Favorite Quote: You started this. Now fight for my cock. While this is book one in the Descended of Guardians series, it's a spin-off of Setta Jay's lengthy, Guardians of the Realms series. I'll admit I was a little lost. I grasped the overall world - The four realms, including heaven, hell and an immortal land, all rose, killing humans and exposing Continue Reading
Review: Maybe I Do by Nicole McLaughlin
Maybe I Do by Nicole McLaughlin Whiskey & Weddings #1 Contemporary Romance August 29, 2017 St. Martin’s Reviewed by Kini Favorite Quote: “I’m afraid you may find me . . . unenticeable at the moment. A perk of reaching your forties.” She yanked her hand up and gently slapped his chest. “Will you stop acting like you’re old? I just had the most amazing sex of my life with the hottest guy I’ve ever met.” The thing that drew me to this book, was that it is set in/around Kansas City. Continue Reading
Review: Holiday in the Hamptons by Sarah Morgan
Holiday in the Hamptons by Sarah Morgan Series: From Manhattan with Love, #5 Contemporary Romance Released: August 29, 2017 HQN Books Reviewed by Sheena Favorite Quote: "I've always loved you." "It was sex -" "And then it was love. So much love I didn't pause long enough to think about whether I was moving too quickly." After reading, and reveling in Miracle on 5th Avenue, the delightful third book in the From Manhattan with Love series, I was insta-sold on Holiday in the Continue Reading
Review: Can’t Hardly Breath by Gena Showalter
Can’t Hardly Breathe by Gena Showalter The Original Heartbreakers, #4 Romance Contemporary August 29, 2017 Harlequin Favorite Quote: “Have fun and stay safe, and make sure you get home by midnight. Excuse my French, but by then there ain’t nothing open but legs and hospitals.” Reviewed by Tori Daniel Porter, Strawberry Valley’s own hometown hero, has come home with his two best friends to take care of his dad and start their security business. A lone wolf whose time in the Army Continue Reading
Review: When the Scoundrel Sins by Anna Harrington
When the Scoundrel Sins by Anna Harrington (Capturing the Carlisles #2) Released: August 29, 2017 Historical Romance Forever Reviewed by Mandi I heard really good things about the first book in this series, and I had never read this author, so I thought I would give this one a try. I think I should have just read book one. I became a bit frustrated with this one. I guess I should have read the blurb more closely, because the plot/set-up of this one felt a little silly. Annabelle's Continue Reading
Review: The Game by Vanessa Fewings
The Game by Vanessa Fewings Series: The ICON Trilogy #2 Genre: Contemporary Romance Publish Date: August 29, 2017 Publisher: Harlequin Books Page Length: 352 Reviewed by Tracey Blurb: Chasing Icon, the world's slickest art thief, was the most seductive thrill of London art investigator Zara Leighton's career…until the clues led her to the man who holds command of her body and heart, Tobias Wilder, an American billionaire with charisma to spare. Her duty to capture him is complicated Continue Reading
Review: Disorderly Conduct by Tessa Bailey
Disorderly Conduct by Tessa Bailey The Academy, #1 Romance Contemporary/Erotic August 29, 2017 Avon Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “No one moves like us, Ever. No one talks to each other without words like us. Don't you know that?” Charlie Burns figured he found the elusive unicorn of all relationships when he meets and engages in a no strings affair with the most beautiful and sexually enticing woman in the whole state of New York-Ever Carmichael. A police cadet currently at the Continue Reading
Smex Scene Sunday
Hero: Charlie Burns. A legacy police recruit. His no strings affair just dumped him and he's not going away without a fight. Heroine: Ever Carmicheal. Taught at an early age never to believe men and to let them go after 30 days. Only this time, the one she tells to go is the one she really wants to stay. In this scene, our hero and heroine indulge in some role play foreplay. "NYPD. Open up." "Oh. Is something wrong officer?" "As a matter of fact, there is." I tug my ever-present Continue Reading
Weekly Wrap-Up
This week at Smexy... B+ review - Drunk Dial by Penelope Ward (contemporary/tracey) B review - The Girl With the Make-Believe Husband by Julia Quinn (historical/may) B review - The Duchess Deal by Tessa Dare (historical/mandi) C+ review - Deacon by Kit Rocha (dytopian/tori) C review - Latte Girl by Katia Rose (contemporary/helyce) D review - A Hero to Love by Gail Chianese (contemporary/mandi) Feature: Haunted Blade by JC Daniels August Mini Reviews News from Kini: I Continue Reading
Review: The Girl with the Make-Believe Husband by Julia Quinn
The Girl With The Make-Believe Husband by Julia Quinn (Rokesbys #2) Released: May 30, 2017 Historical Romance Avon Reviewed by May Cecilia Harcourt is now an orphan, her cousin is odious and taking over the home she’s always known, and now her brother Thomas is missing on the battlefront in the Colonies. What is a girl to do? Why jump the first boat over and when she finds her brother’s friend Edward Rokesby unconscious in the hospital but no sign of her brother – pretend she is his Continue Reading